Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

- Mcilvanney, William

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Churchill, Winston

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

If you wish to strengthen a lie, mix a little truth in with it.

Zohar

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Sterling, John

When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Mailer, Norman

Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Bowen, Elizabeth

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mencken, H. L.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Byron, Lord

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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Bernanos, Georges

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Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

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With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.

Proverb, Russian

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If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

Traven, B.

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If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Belloc, Hilaire

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When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.

Jefferson, Thomas

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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Simon, Paul

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He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

Greene, Graham

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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Beecher, Lyman

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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Crowley, Aleister

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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?

Crisp, Quentin

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Lying and stealing are next door neighbors.

Proverb, Arabian

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Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable.

Mcilvanney, William

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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

Proust, Marcel

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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Voltaire

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I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Some lies are so well disguised to resemble truth, that we should be poor judges of the truth not to believe them.

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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

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It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.

Armstrong, Robert

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Speakes, Larry

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Great talker, great liar.

Proverb, French

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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that -- being what it is -- it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.

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One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Wilde, Oscar

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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Williams, Tennessee

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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.